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If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.

If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Rights, People, Giving
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.82, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every idea appears at first as a strange visitor, and when it begins to be realized, it is hardly distinguishable from fantasy.

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Ideas, Firsts, Visitors

Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Faults, Individual, Certain
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.115, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Men, Ignorant, Language
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “Goethe's Opinions on the World, Mankind, Literature, Science, and Art”, p.112

It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth, Errors, Liberty
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.73, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth, Men, Long
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.3587, Delphi Classics

For the nature of a women is closely allied to art. [Ger., Denn das Naturell der Frauen Ist so nah mit Kunst verwandt.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Women, Mit

A noble man is led far by woman's gentle words. [Ger., Ein edler Mann wird durch ein gutes Wort Der Frauen weit gefuhrt.]

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Women, Noble Man, Gentle

Man usually believes, if only words he hears, That also with them goes material for thinking. [Ger., Gewohnlich glaubt der Mensch, wenn er nur Worte hort, Es musse sich dabei doch auch was denken.]

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Believe, Men, Thinking

The rabble also vent their rage in words. [Ger., Es macht das Volk sich auch mit Worten Lust.]

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Lust, Mit, Rage

Rash, inexperienced youth holds itself a chosen instrument, and allows itself unbounded license.

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Youth, Instruments, Chosen

Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Brother, Suffering, Pages
"Roman Elegies". Book by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Elegy 2 (First version), 1902.

With knowledge comes more doubt.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Doubt

The ground that a good man treads is hallowed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Reading, Men, Evil

Don't feel guilty if you don't immediately love your stepchildren as you do your own, or as much as you think you should. Everyoneneeds time to adjust to the new family, adults included. There is no such thing as an "instant parent." Actually, no concrete object lies outside of the poetic sphere as long as the poet knows how to use the object properly.

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Lying, Love You, Thinking

If you have science and art, You also have religion; But if you don't have them, You better have religion.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Art, Science, Religion

Artists have a double relationship towards nature: they are her master and her slave at the same time. They are her slave in so far as they must work with means of this world so as to be understood; her master in so far as they subject these means to their higher goals and make them subservient to them.

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Art, Nature, Mean

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

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Art, Nature, Degrees

Only that type of story deserves to be called moral that shows us that one has the power within oneself to act, out of the conviction that there is something better, even against one's own inclination.

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Stories, Literature, Moral

Association with women is the basis of good manners.

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Women, Good Man, Association

National literature does not mean much these days; now is the age of world literature, and every one must contribute to hasten thearrival of that age.

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Mean, Age, Doe

Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.

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Science, Becoming, Awareness

Normally, the sciences distance themselves from life and the return to it via a detour.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Distance, Science, Detours

It is bad governments, not bad people, who cause revolutions.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Government, People, Revolution

The soul-stirring image of death is no bugbear to the sage, and is looked on without despair by the pious. It teaches the former to live, and it strengthens the hopes of the latter in salvation in the midst of distress. Death is new life to both.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Soul, Despair, New Life

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